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Paul Robidas, a life-long Somersworth resident, is general manager of the new venture. Several of Robidas’ staff members will be joining him.

SOMERSWORTH -- Massachusetts-based American Ambulance Service of New England will open its first New Hampshire operation on Route 108 in Somersworth this week -- but don’t be surprised if you recognize the familiar faces staffing and managing the new ambulances and wheelchair vans.

Paul Robidas, a life-long Somersworth resident, is general manager of the new venture and brings with him over 30 years of local emergency medical services experience.

“I am very excited to be given the opportunity to bring a new service to the same community where I was raised and build it the right way from the ground up,” said Robidas. Our goal is simply to provide world class care and responsiveness to our patients and customers every single day.”

Several of Robidas’ staff members will be joining him from their former employer, American Medical Response (AMR). “We’re bringing the best of the best with us,” notes Robidas. “From ‘Day 1’, we will have area expertise and facility experience in every ambulance and answering every phone call.”

In the coming weeks, Robidas and his staff will be introducing his new service to area hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, dialysis centers, urgent care centers, hospice, and home-care organizations as well as the cities and towns that use private ambulance services for their 9-1-1 responses. These include Somersworth, Berwick, Eliot and Kittery.

American Ambulance Service provides emergent and non-emergent ambulance services at both the basic and advanced life support levels. They also provide disaster response, bariatric services, ventilator services, wheelchair van service and health care education to local health facilities, municipalities and to the communities they service. For more information, please call (603) 480-5600 or visit www.AmericanAmbulanceSvc.com.

American Ambulance Service has locations in Beverly, Allston, Hyde Park, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts as well as several locations in Florida and employs over 1,000 experienced care-givers and support personnel completing over 280,000 transports annually. American Ambulance Service of New England is owned by Falck, a 106-year-old Scandinavian-based company deeply rooted in providing emergency medical services around the world.